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PMOD-Lora
Microchip’s Long Range Low Power End Node solution
With the growing Internet of Things, Microchip has a LoRa® Technology wireless solution to address increasing demands on end-devices for long range connectivity, low power for battery operation, and low infrastructure cost for volume deployment.
Microchip’s LoRa Technology solution is ready to run out-of-the box and with the complete LoRaWAN™ Protocol and certifications in place, it reduces time to market and saves development costs.
The RN2483 is a LoRa™-integrated modem with a range of more than 15 km (suburban), low power enabling a battery life greater than 10 years and the ability to connect millions of wireless sensor nodes to LoRa gateways and IoT-connected Cloud Servers. This robust system is due to LoRa’s unique spread-spectrum based modulation that is capable of demodulation 20 dB below the noise level. This enables high sensitivity for ultra-long range, improved network efficiency and eliminates interference. The RN2483 modem operates over the 433 and 868 MHz license-free Industry Scientific and Medical (ISM) frequency bands and serves as the end-device in the LoRa network infrastructure.
The RN2483 is a fully-certified 433/868 MHz module based on wireless LoRa® technology.
The module’s embedded LoRaWAN™ Class A protocol enables seamless connectivity to any LoRaWAN compliant network infrastructure, whether public or privately deployed. The module is specifically designed for ease of use, which shortens development time and speeds time to market. LoRa technology is ideal for battery-operated sensors and low power applications such as IoT, M2M, Smart City, Sensor networks, Industrial automation, and more.
Features:
Firmware developed using: NXP Codewarrior. For installation and configuration of the project, follow instruction inside Quick start guide
The board reference documentation is available on the architech-board website.
Contents:
In order to see working the PMOD-Lora you have to register the device on the activity website using your personal account. After the registration login and you will access the main page.
First up we have to register your Microchip RN2483 device, to do this, click on Device Manager arrow to open a new window.
Click the right mouse button on the Devices folder and select + Create.
In this form you have to insert the data we have stored in the RN2483. The following fields are mandatory:
Optional field but useful:
Then click on the top right + create.
Warning
If some key is wrong then the device will be unable to send data correctly in the Lora network.
After the registration, you can close the window device manager and on the main page go to Logger.
Here you will see all the messages sent by your device. Now take the FRDM-KL26Z board and connect it to the RSR1066 board. It is required mount the strip connectors:
Connect the PMOD module to the CN7
Then power supply the FRDM board via mini USB connection.
The board will send messages every 30 seconds. Now it’s time to see the data sent. Power off the board. And in the logger window, you will have 2 rows, every row is a message received from the server. If you click on the + node you can see the unencrypted data received Payload (hex):. All messages start with the number 18, the other three number couples are the data read from the accelerometer mounted on the board. You will see the data changed when you have tilted the board and sent the second message.
This guide will provide instructions to install the development environment needed to compile and debug the demo firmware of the PMOD-Lora. The development system is built for Windows. The main steps are:
Hardware required:
Special Editions are fully functional free download versions of the CodeWarrior Development Studio with code size restrictions on the build chain. Special Editions are pre-licensed, not bound to a single machine and are not time restricted. You do not need to register the tools or ask for a license.
Download the IDE from this page, we used Codewarriror for Microcontrollers v10.6.4.
Next, launch the downloaded file CW_MCU_v10.6.4_Special_Edition.exe following all the default options and selecting Kinetis as platform. Once it is installed will be created its icon on the desktop.
Here you will see all the messages sent by your device. Now take the FRDM-KL26Z board and connect it to the RSR1066 board. It is required mount the strip connectors:
Connect the PMOD module to the CN7 then power supply the FRDM board via mini USB connection.
If you want download the firmware in the board without debugging it go to step 5. In order to debug the code you have to change the UART port because PTA1 and PTA2 are used for debug purpose from the OpenSDA.
The board is provided with:
The Microchip RN2483 module provides LoRaWAN™ protocol connectivity using a simple UART interface. The NXP MKLS26Z is connected to the Microchip module using the configuration 57600 8N1 without using RTS, CTS lines.
The connection used by RN2483 is ABP (Activation by Personalization). To use this connection it is required to setup the RN device only one time. Every Lora Sensor Node bought is already configured. The commands used were:
sys factoryRESETsys get hweuimac set deveui [hweui key read]mac set devaddr [last less significant hexs of hweui key]mac set appskey AFBECD56473829100192837465FAEBDCmac set nwkskey [hweui key repeated two times]mac save
After saving this setup is not required repeat the opeation of setup. In order to send data in the Lora network the two used commands are:
Please refer to architechboards website.